The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Do we have any coffee experts here? :)
What equipment do you recommend for home brewing? I don't mind waiting 5-10 minutes for the cup to become ready. Lots of pleasant aroma filling my home would be a bonus.
What are good reasons for taking coffee seriously?
How much subjectively experienced variety is there in terms of bean types?
I'd say (as a complete normie) that you should take into account your morning routine and your willingness to operate the equipment as soon as you wake up.
As another complete normie (who doesn't even drink coffee), the only acceptable level of complexity in the morning is one of these all-in-one machines that grind your beans and foam your milk. There are a lot of shitty ones out there, though. Melitta, Nivona, DeLonghi are fine, as far as I know. There's a Chinese brand that is acceptable, DrCoffee, I think.
Another option (if you are someone who doesn't drink Italian-style coffee) is combining a good electric grinder with a good (ECBC-certified) drip coffee maker.
Anything else is for people who don't need coffee to wake up and can afford to wait for their perfect cup.
I'm on the high end instant coffee gig, and leaning into high caffeine black teabags. Happy where I am, no need to correct it.
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